Carbon dioxide emissions from ice-free ground in one area of Antarctica have grown fivefold in just five years, suggesting ...

The Wilkes Subglacial Basin is a huge depression in the bedrock beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Although it is one of the more important parts of Antarctica when it comes to future sea-level ...

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier may be melting twice as much as previously predicted, even without additional global warming.

In Antarctica, fishing for whale food was stopped midwayOn October 29, 2026, international debate continues regarding the ...

In August 2024, something extraordinary appeared in the middle of Antarctica’s winter sea ice: a vast expanse of open ocean where there should have been a frozen surface. The reason for the anomaly ...

Antarctic sea ice reached its third-lowest winter maximum in 2026, extending a remarkable decline that began after years of record-breaking growth. Scientists are investigating whether the dramatic ...

The encounter occurred in January 2025 near the South Shetland Islands, approximately 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of the ...

Explore the world’s last great wilderness—kayak in protected waters, hike amid magnificent mountains, see huge glaciers up close and observe an array of endemic wildlife in the company of a team of ...

Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier © Giles Laurent (gileslaurent.com) via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Greenland and Antarctica have lost a shocking amount of ...

The Antarctic ice sheet’s future depends how a chain of events plays out. A new study finds the evidence points in one direction.